From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Allegro -- direct copying of RLE sprites
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 20:38:24 +0100
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Chris Frolik writes:
>Is there a fast and easy way to copy RLE sprites?  If anyone has written
[...]
>I know this method of creating a bitmap is disgusting and slow.  Is
>there a faster way to avoid the "middle-man" and just copy from one
>RLE_SPRITE to another?

There is, but it is also not very elegant. If you look at the definition
of the RLE_SPRITE structure in allegro.h you will see that it is:

typedef struct RLE_SPRITE           /* a RLE compressed sprite */
{
   int w, h;                        /* width and height in pixels */
   int color_depth;                 /* color depth of the image */
   int size;                        /* size of sprite data in bytes */
   signed char dat[0];              /* RLE bitmap data */
} RLE_SPRITE;

Since it is just a single block of binary data, you can compute the size
as sizeof(RLE_SPRITE)+sprite->size. Then just malloc that much memory
for your new sprite, and memcpy() from the old image to the new...

But I have to ask, why do you need to copy these sprites? I find it very
hard to imagine why that would be useful...


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